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Canada’s antisemitism strategy is being written by people who don’t recognize it.

JL;DR SUMMARY Canadian efforts to address antisemitism are scrutinized in Cynthia Lazar’s guest essay critiquing a Senate committee's report on the issue. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CommunityZionismMiddle EastHuman RightsCanadaAnti ZionismGovernment PolicySenate Committee

Places mentioned

Canada
"Canadian politicians keep asserting that antisemitism has no place in Canada."
Nova Scotia, Canada
"The deputy chair, Wanda Thomas Bernard, spoke in the Senate about Gaza, insisting that Israeli actions were not about self-defense and that people are dying of starvation and dehydration."
Israel
"a retired psychiatrist and Canadian Zionist writing about Israel and antisemitism."
Toronto Metropolitan University, Ontario, Canada
"He was mentioned in the Toronto Metropolitan University report as a signatory of the law schools open letter, written days after October 7th, accusing Jews of causing the massacre."
Carleton University, Ontario, Canada
"Mira Sucharov, a professor at Carleton University, insisted that Jewish institutions, here in Canada, need to realize that they may be fuelling the wrongheaded assumption by presenting all or part of their mission as being to support Israel."

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